Wondros Podcast: A Cure For An Incurable Superbug? w/ Steffanie Strathdee & Thomas Patterson
Jesse and Priscilla talk to infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie A. Strathdee and her husband Thomas Patterson about the race to save Tom’s life from an antibiotic-resistant superbug… that turned him into a snake. Superbugs are expected to kill more people than cancer later this century. The miracle cure turned out to be a bacterial virus called a Phage. Phages are now being explored for their incredible potential to combat superbugs.